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[kschauweker]

"Kids are on spring break so I changed their oil & filters.

Bought Costco oil but to my surprise they no longer sell conventional.
Bought Mobil 1 oil filters at Walmart but they also had no conventional.
Went to O'Reillys but their conventional was more expensive than synthetic.

I had Costco look up who had conventional oil and it turns out they
discounted their last cases of Chevron 10W30 SN & 10W40 SN conventional oils
to $9.97/10 quarts more than a year ago and haven't sold any conventional
motor oils since then at any Costco in my area.

Huh?
Since when is conventional oil hard to find in bulk?
Is this a new thing?

I'm not complaining or even asking whether the $25/10 quarts Kirkland fully
synthetic 5W30 SP oil is good or not as I know all about synthetic oil
advantages & disadvantages over conventional gasoline engine motor oils.

I'm just asking if you've also found it hard to find conventional oil by the
case at good prices (which means at your local Costco or department store)?"

Any thoughts?

 

[CKN]

"Kids are on spring break so I changed their oil & filters.

Bought Costco oil but to my surprise they no longer sell conventional.
Bought Mobil 1 oil filters at Walmart but they also had no conventional.
Went to O'Reillys but their conventional was more expensive than synthetic.

I had Costco look up who had conventional oil and it turns out they
discounted their last cases of Chevron 10W30 SN & 10W40 SN conventional oils
to $9.97/10 quarts more than a year ago and haven't sold any conventional
motor oils since then at any Costco in my area.

Huh?
Since when is conventional oil hard to find in bulk?
Is this a new thing?

I'm not complaining or even asking whether the $25/10 quarts Kirkland fully
synthetic 5W30 SP oil is good or not as I know all about synthetic oil
advantages & disadvantages over conventional gasoline engine motor oils.

I'm just asking if you've also found it hard to find conventional oil by the
case at good prices (which means at your local Costco or department store)?"

Any thoughts?

I think conventional oil is going to be harder to find. At Walmart the difference between SuperTech Conventional and Synthetic oil is very small. If CostCo discontinues it at one location-it could be on it's way out elsewhere.

 

[Rand]

walmart has plenty.

 

[AutoMechanic]

Very hard to find here too. Walmart has discontinued all of it except 20W-50 and I think they have some 10w30 and 10W-40 too but limited brands compared to what it used to be. It’s really disappointing.